Best Practices

Our Top Blogs on Growing Entrepreneurial Communities

Published Jan 30, 2018
by Rob Williams

What trends in entrepreneurship and economic development are we going to see in 2018? We’ve seen more and more communities begin to map their assets and resources into a network that is easily accessible for entrepreneurs and business owners. Before we can look ahead, we’d like to reflect on what we have learned.

We’ve compiled a list of our top performing blogs of 2017. In the previous years, our top posts were related to the basics of ecosystem building like understanding what an entrepreneurial ecosystem is and what it means. However in 2017, our readers were looking for more specific articles on further developing their entrepreneurial community infrastructure.

Looking at our top posts of 2017, we can break down what our readers were interested in by these topics:

● Reaching and developing entrepreneurship in distressed communities

● Events to further develop connections and understanding

● Further developing entrepreneurial infrastructure

Here’s what our readers wanted to know about growing entrepreneurial communities in 2017:

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Cultivating entrepreneurship is one thing, but what if your community "doesn't have" any entrepreneurs? Erik Pedersen of NetWork Kansas shares how to attract entrepreneurs (and the jobs they create) to a small town.

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Rob Williams is the director of SourceLink where he puts the “serve” in customer service, always available as support to SourceLink clients who are often the unsung entrepreneurial champions in their communities.

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